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We’re so excited to get started with this project and this blog! Posts will be published as we visit each neighborhood; we preemptively apologize for delays. If you have any location suggestions, or would like to be part of this process, let us know! Please follow along here, on Instagram @90conesproject, and on Facebook at…
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Oct 31, 2025 Happy Halloween! We live just a couple blocks from the friendly residential neighborhood of Morningside, and Morningside does Halloween right: elaborate decorations, trick-or-treaters of all ages, and neighbors outside enjoying the night. Pippa (aka Sir Bernard Spilsbury of Operation Mincemeat fame) and Edmund (aka the SciTech thundershark) collected lots of candy, then…
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September 20, 2025 Never mind the fact that we’re posting this two months late: it’s time for the third and final post from our twelve-mile hike across Pittsburgh! We were tired but ice cream is always a great solution. As we walked into Allegheny West, we noticed a clear divide from its bordering neighborhoods in…
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September 20, 2025 The second stop on our ice cream hike brought us up a mountain and into a part of the city we don’t frequent often. While Mount Washington is only a bridge away from Downtown, the river, combined with the steep slope, separate it from much of Pittsburgh. We used the Monongahela Incline…
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September 20, 2025 The first stop of our 12.5 mile walk across Pittsburgh was Middle Hill, one of the five neighborhoods that make up the Hill District. The historic center of the Hill District, Middle Hill is home to many of the businesses and institutions for the area including a branch of the Carnegie Library…
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In our official 90 Cones planning spreadsheet, we have a category called “walkable” for neighborhoods that we can get to without a car. These are neighborhoods adjacent to East Liberty, reachable from home via a comfortable after dinner walk. On September 20th, we officially broke that category. We walked 12.5 miles and crossed all three…
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September 19, 2025 The City of Pittsburgh’s story began in the neighborhood now officially called “Central Business District,” better known as “Dahntahn” or “The Golden Triangle.” Ringed by bridges, topped by skyscrapers, and full of landmarks, Downtown is also where our family worships (at Smithfield United Church of Christ), where Pippa goes to school (at…
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September 13, 2025 After picking Pippa up from a babysitting job, Liddy and Pippa headed to Frank & Shirley’s Restaurant in Overbrook. Frank and Shirley purchased the land for the restaurant in 1981; it was previously the site of the first ever Eat ‘n’ Park. Today, Frank & Shirley’s is an old-fashioned classic diner serving…
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September 6, 2025 Also known as Pittsburgh’s Little Italy, Bloomfield is a long but doable walk from our house. Along our walk, we passed the Waldorf School of Pittsburgh building, constructed as a family mansion, and then converted into the Ursuline Academy in the 1890s. We also saw West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh’s first chartered public…
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August 26, 2025 Located to the west, Crafton Heights is home to many things but most notable for our family is the Pittsburgh Gifted Center. Gifted is located in the Greenway School building (which also currently houses Pittsburgh Classical school, and teacher development for Pittsburgh Public Schools). Gifted was a favorite part of school for…
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August 30- September 1, 2025 We’re bringing back the godparents theme for a super fun trip with Edmund’s godparents to Coudersport in Potter County, Pennsylvania. We made the trip both to see them and to go to Cherry Springs State Park, a dark sky park where, despite a chilly night, we got to see so…